Kaleigh Fitzgerald joined the Chattanooga volleyball program in July of 2025, being added into the role of Assistant Coach for the Mocs ahead of the 2025 regular season.
Prior to joining the Mocs staff, Fitzgerald resided in Atlanta, Georgia, where she pursued her M.S. in Sports Administration from Georgia State University. While she juggled her graduate schooling, Fitzgerald also held the position of Sponsorship Activation Coordinator with the Atlanta Vibe of the Pro Volleyball Federation for nearly a year. It was in this role that Fitzgerald helped to execute sponsor agreements as well as manage branding for the team.
Fitzgerald spent a good portion of 2023 down in Florida, where she served as a summer volleyball coach for IMG Academy. While there, Fitzgerald would lead weekly training sessions with athletes aged 12-17, and she was eventually promoted to head coach of the program at the mid-season mark. Immediately following this time Fitzgerald would go on to serve as Gameday Operations Assistant at Auburn University at Montgomery.
Fitzgerald's coaching career also includes stints as a camp coach for the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh and for SMASH Volleyball Club in Weston, Massachusetts.
A defensive specialist/libero in her playing days, Fitzgerald was a five-year letterwinner in indoor volleyball having bounced around to four different universities over the course of her career. Fitzgerald would get her start in college volleyball at the University of Hartford in the Spring of 2021, and it was during the 2022 season that she would make her way to UAlbany as a transfer. Fitzgerald would then spend the 2023 season at Auburn University at Montgomery before wrapping up her playing career in 2024 at Georgia State.
As a player, Fitzgerald raked in countless honors and awards including being named the 2023 Gulf South Conference Libero of the Year while at AUM. Her college career would finish with Fitzgerald having amassed 1,146 career digs (3.23 digs/set) and 129 career aces (0.36Â aces/set). Some of her other achievements include being a Second Team AVCA All-South Region honoree, a First Team All-GSC selection and the Georgia State Female Sport MVP for 2025. Over the course of her playing career Fitzgerald was also a standout in the classroom, receiving numerous conference and university honor roll distinctions.
Fitzgerald is a 2023 graduate from the University of Albany - SUNY, where she received her B.A. in Communications alongside a minor in Leadership. She went on to earn her M.S. in Sports Administration from Georgia State University in May of 2025. Fitzgerald originally hails from Waukesha, Wisconsin, where she was a part of a very volleyball-centered family as her mother and aunt each played collegiate volleyball at George Washington University and the University of Wisconsin, respectively.
